Manure Happens

Into November we arrive off the back of some lovely run-volunteering vibes last night. Just the 10 heroes last night, as we've negotiated a little hiccup in numbers of late, something I'm sure we can reverse through this month. It might be cold and dark outside, but not once you're running, chatting, weeding, laughing and shovelling shit into wheel barrows. These activities warm up your soul.

Our topical Random Weekly Question, "What's your favourite scary film?" extracted a range of gory, freaky, nightmarish movies. Most of which I haven't seen, thankfully. Gothica, Baby Rosemeary, Carrie, Scream, Blair Witch Project, Halloween (the original), Red Dragon and the best answer: Blood Diamond. Evidently Ruth's scary film parameter's are a little different to others - and I respect that.

The long haul over to the allotments flew by with chatting, running past a large mob of youths with empty egg containers on the floor I expected an onslaught of yolky slime. Luckily they saw the red GG t-shirts and must've thought twice. Transpires they even gave out sweets to the back group - remarkably mannered young kids - there's hope yet.

We powered through some weeding, lay down some cardboard to quell the new weedy shoots, shovelled lots of animal crap onto the raised beds then bagged up the residual green waste. It was efficient. It was hands on. It was a bit dirty (surprisingly not smelly). And it was hugely helpful to Jane, who runs the plot, she looked sincerely inspired "you run here, do this, then run back, that's inspiring".

Most of you made the journey back by foot, making it a massive midweek mileage, 11k, that'll really boost endurance and importantly develop confidence.

We celebrated GGN's 4th b'day with a couple drinks in Neighborhood, I spouted the work done stats again...bloody impressive, though I may be only one to take such joy from these numbers. *The equivalent work of one person working flat out 24 hour days for 65 days

Come on, that's good!

Next week we're at Manorfield - hope we'll make it a forceful numbers display from our fantastic group. Sign up here

Have a tip-top week and see you beauts in 6 days

B